[Spring Day]
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Narrado por Jorge Obregón
Narrado por Jorge Obregón
A renowned calligrapher and painter of 18th-century Japan, Kan Tenju devoted much of his life to the study of Chinese calligraphy and classical literature. In a semi-cursive style, he presents here the composition Spring Day by the Chinese poet and statesman Shangguan Yi 上官儀 (608–665), of the Tang dynasty 唐.
The poem employs a range of rhetorical devices to highlight the beauty and vitality of spring through its plants and animals, as well as other poetic images which give an extraordinary and mythical aura to his garden. He places the reader as a witness of the landscape he creates through his poetry. The “Moonlight Tower,” a recurring motif in classical Chinese literature, expresses the poet’s longing for home and distant friends.
A renowned calligrapher and painter of 18th-century Japan, Kan Tenju devoted much of his life to the study of Chinese calligraphy and classical literature. In a semi-cursive style, he presents here the composition Spring Day by the Chinese poet and statesman Shangguan Yi 上官儀 (608–665), of the Tang dynasty 唐.
The poem employs a range of rhetorical devices to highlight the beauty and vitality of spring through its plants and animals, as well as other poetic images which give an extraordinary and mythical aura to his garden. He places the reader as a witness of the landscape he creates through his poetry. The “Moonlight Tower,” a recurring motif in classical Chinese literature, expresses the poet’s longing for home and distant friends.
A renowned calligrapher and painter of 18th-century Japan, Kan Tenju devoted much of his life to the study of Chinese calligraphy and classical literature. In a semi-cursive style, he presents here the composition Spring Day by the Chinese poet and statesman Shangguan Yi 上官儀 (608–665), of the Tang dynasty 唐.
The poem employs a range of rhetorical devices to highlight the beauty and vitality of spring through its plants and animals, as well as other poetic images which give an extraordinary and mythical aura to his garden. He places the reader as a witness of the landscape he creates through his poetry. The “Moonlight Tower,” a recurring motif in classical Chinese literature, expresses the poet’s longing for home and distant friends.